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...reinforced concrete wall. One will house prison work shops, and probably a factory where inmates will make soap for 54 other State institutions. Another will contain recreation facilities and latrines. Centre circle-672 ft. across-will contain a hospital, an auditorium and six separate cell blocks, with accommodations for 592 prisoners, each in a private cell. The cells will be so arranged that any inmate who chisels his way out will find himself in either the next cell or a corridor. Between each prisoner and freedom will be a dozen locks, electrically controlled from a tower on the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Pennsylvania's Mt. Gretna | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

...weeks ago rumors began to spread: Poum's Nin had escaped from jail, he was planning even bloodier uprisings, the conservative Negrin Cabinet was in danger. Paris last week had a different story. Government gangsters had kidnapped Poum's Nin from his cell, shot him and dumped him in a roadside ditch, just as year ago other gangsters (in police uniforms) murdered Fascist Deputy José Calvo Sotelo and unwittingly pulled the trigger for the entire war (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Two Plans | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

...ribs roused him. He saw "two short men and two stout men" wearing flour sacks over their heads a la Ku Klux Klan. Ordered to the county jail, Sergeant Fairbanks knew what was expected of him. He had the keys which would lead through six locked but unguarded cell doors to Richard Hawkins and Ernest Ponder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Two for Florida | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...Dothan, Ala.. John Sowell, ex-Texas convict was arrested, imprisoned. The Sheriff removed two hacksaw blades from his person. Later guards found his cell empty, a note: "Dear Sheriff. You miscounted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 14, 1937 | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...want to show the public. In a new Hall of Man they want to show "man's embryology, development of his body, unfolding of his behavior, his genetics, and a resume of his achievements over the ages." They want a microvivarium to show how ameba and other one-cell animals live. They want to show how to farm frogs, how to make pocketbooks from snake skins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Museum Wants | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

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